Heritage Act 1995 definition: "fauna" means all wild birds and all wild animals (both aquatic and terrestrial) and includes in particular fish, wild mammals, reptiles, non-aquatic invertebrate animals and amphibians, and all such wild animals' eggs, larvae, pupae or other immature stage and young, but in relation to fish or aquatic invertebrate animals (or their eggs or spawn or other immature stage or brood or young) only includes fish and such aquatic invertebrate animals of a species specified in regulations under section 23 of the Wildlife Act, 1976, which are for the time being in force;

• Flying Fauna Birdlife
• Walking Crawling Fauna Animals, insects and other land beasties.
• Swimming Fauna Fish and other sealife.

• Heritage Act 1995 From the Irish Statute Book website. Donegal wiki offers no advice or legal interpretation in this regard.